The Bikes Against Bush ChalkWriter can print text messages from web users directly on the street surface as the biker/activist cruises along. Online users can send messages to the bicycle in real-time through the project website, bikesagainstbush.com. The cyclist decides when and where to print them, based on tactical criteria. When the cyclist prints a message, the bikesagainstbush.com website automatically updates a live map marking the location of the message. The webcam on the bike also documents this with a snapshot at the moment of printing. To avoid any taint of vandalism, the spray-chalk text message is easily removable with water, or biodegrades safely within 30 days. The Bikes Against Bush strategy is not to engage in "civil disobedience," but to serve as an inspirational working model for alternative, creative political statement and attention-grabbing, memorable, persuasive resistance.

About Joshua Kinberg: Joshua Kinberg is an emerging-technology artist and activist. He creates contagious media and politically expressive art pieces engaging a wide array of technologies from web development to reverse-engineered consumer electronics. In 2004, Joshua committed his talent, education, and energies in working to defeat the reelection of the incumbent Bush/Cheney ticket. Joshua's Sloganator Memorial Slideshow, celebrating the Bush/Cheney campaign's short-lived, ill-fated, online poster creation tool, has been emailed to thousands upon thousands of people, attracting roughly half a million visitors within 8 weeks. Joshua created Bluetooth Users Against Bush, a website encouraging anti-Bush participants to create "moments of ad-hoc solidarity" using Bluetooth-enabled devices (mobile phones, PDAs, laptop co mputers). The effort became an overnight craze, attaining so much instant notoriety that it warranted (and soon defeated) cease and desist threats from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Bikes Against Bush, which will use wireless bicycles to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention, has already garnered Kinberg national attention with interviews on CNN and MTV, amongst others.

Joshua has exhibited artwork in numerous galleries and has received a number of artistic grants and awards. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Art and Art History from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2001, earned his MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design in 2004, and has been an instructor at Parsons School of Design, Eyebeam, and the Queens Museum of Art.